Bamboo

Bamboo flooring is built for sustainability and durability to last a lifetime.

Bamboo is a natural, highly renewable resource growing to maturity in only three to five years. It is an ecologically-friendly flooring option which can help reduce global warming and dependence on dwindling timber resources.

Bamboo flooring materials are manufactured to be:

Extremely strong and hard.

Easy to maintain and are able to be refinished, if over time, they become marred or discolored.

Stylish in a variety of natural colors, and can take the “wear and tear” of everyday life.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Bamboo flooring is an extremely versatile flooring product. It can be installed in virtually any room of your home, above or below ground, over wood, or existing vinyl flooring. Because bamboo flooring is a natural flooring product it is not recommended that bamboo be installed in wet locations such as bathrooms, saunas, enclosed porches or verandas. Extended exposure to moisture of this type may cause your bamboo flooring to warp or swell.

No. Carbonized bamboo is darker in color because it has undergone a change, not a stain. During the manufacturing of the product, the strips of bamboo are boiled and change color (darker). This process also softens the material.

No. Strand-woven bamboo is manufactured differently than traditional bamboo flooring. In the strand-woven process, strips of bamboo are coated with resins and then compressed with heat to form timbers. These timbers are then milled into flooring. This process produces bamboo flooring that is twice as hard as traditional bamboo flooring.

There are several advantages to using bamboo flooring compared to hardwood flooring. First, bamboo flooring is an environmentally friendly product. It takes only a few years for a bamboo plant to grow to maturity, while it takes decades for hardwood trees. Each year, one “mother plant” generates several new bamboo stems that grow to full length in a few months and mature hardness in about five years. Second, bamboo is actually harder than hardwood so it produces a more durable flooring. Third, in most cases bamboo is less expensive than hardwood while installation costs are the same. Hardwood installers and contractors need no additional training to install bamboo flooring. Bamboo can be installed using exactly the same tools and methods as are used for installing hardwood.